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MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia through the Environmental Protection Agency has joined other countries to ensure the fulfillment of their obligations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC.The Framework guides c

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet Somalia Format Somalia is highly susceptible to the effects of climate change and extreme weather. Without anticipatory preventive approaches, these factors are likely to exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and reduce the people’s livelihood options, which in turn may have negative impacts for stability and security in Somalia. More frequent and intense droughts and floods undermine food security and worsen livelihood conditions in Somalia, adversely affecting marginalized groups, fuelling grievances, increasing competition over scarce resources and ex...

2Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 3Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Long-term urban land use land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and climate change trends in Southwest Ethiopia's four urban centers were examined for 60 years. Remote sensing, aerial photos, and Landsat, temperature, and rainfall data were analyzed from a climate change perspective over the Jimma, Bedelle, Bonga, and Sokorru urban centers of southwest Ethiopia from 1953 to 2018. Based on geospatial analysis and maximum likelihood supervised image classi...